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circa 1999 I was a big fan of Jakob Nielsen's books and website about web usability. The website he had back then had all sorts of advice around usability which I attribute, in part, to my success early in my career. I often wonder what he thinks of the web today with all of the design systems and frontend frameworks versus the simplicity of the 90s.


His company is still kicking. Dunno how much day to day involvement he has:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-...




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